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Evening Star, Issue 4218, 2 September 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Chbistchcbch, September 2. Dr Turner, who was recaptured yesterday, was brought up this moraing and sentenced to one month's imprisonment for escaping from gaol. {From our own [Correspondent) Auckland, September 1. George Gordon M‘Kay, a mining speculator of Auckland, was found dead on the floor of a bedrooxp of the Pacific Hotel, Grahamstown, with an immense gash in his throat inflicted by a pocket-knife. M'Kay first came out to Victoria as assistant for the Union Bank of Australia in 1852, at a time when everything was in a state of chaos, and men with thousands of pounds salaries were washing about for cold. M‘Kay’s genial temper procured for him an advance of position as teller in the Melbourne office of the new London Chartered Batik" of Australia, whence ho was again promoted to the managership of their chief branch at Ballarat. M*Kay occupied this for nearly twelve or thirteen years, was at one time reported to bo a millionaire, waa worth at least L 30,000 or L 40.000, but a sudden depreciation in the value of mining securities caused his retirement from the bank, but it was well known that his heritage from his father was ample for his

support during life, IJe was laboring under delusionary ideas for the last six months, whioh no doubt have been the cause of his lamentable tragic end. M'Kay was a nephew to Mr Mathieaon, manager of the Bank of Victoria in Melbourne, and to Mr Joseph Sutherland, late a director of the same bank. He has a brother in business in Melbourne. He was a gentleman of liberal education and shrewd in matters of business. Findlay, who was tried at the October Criminal Court sittings in 1874 for attempting to murder the clerjk of Mr Yeung, batcher, Grey street, died at the Lunatic Asylum. On the 4th of August he declared he would take no more food. Dr. Aicken consequently had to feed him with a stomach pump. Jle became gradually reduo id until

The football match -with Canterbury was very hotly contested. The Canterbury men were heavier, but Auckland much quicker. The Canterbury team, who sailed South today, expressed their unqualified pleasure at the preparation made to receive them and the enjoyment of their trip. A Russell telegram reports that the American whaler Hunter caught two sperm whales at the South Sea ground.